Triangle Fire 50th Anniversary Commemoration, March 25, 1961

The 1961 commemoration of the Triangle fire's 50th anniversary was held at the site of the fire on the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street in Manhattan. It was hosted by David Dubinsky, President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Honored guests included 14 survivors of the fire, former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, ILGWU organizers Rose Schneiderman and Pauline Newman, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America President Jacob Potofsky, Mayor Robert Wagner, Fire Commissioner Edward Cavanaugh, and others. Speakers included Reverend Yager, Chaplin Eckhardt, David Dubinsky, NYU Professor Robert Goldman, Frances Perkins, Edward Cavanaugh, and Eleanor Roosevelt.Read the transcript of David Dubinsky's address

Triangle Fire 79th Anniversary Commemoration, March 26, 1990

The 1990 commemoration of the Triangle fire's 79th anniversary was held at the site of the 1911 fire on the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street in Manhattan. It was hosted by Jay Mazur, President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Honored guests and speakers included Rabbi Allen Kaplan, Mayor David Dinkins, Fire Commissioner Carlos Rivera; striking workers from the Domsey Trading Corporation. Speakers also acknowledged the 87 people who died the previous day at the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx.

"This Was News!" Federal Theater Radio Division of the Works Progress Administration, Program #8, March 20, 1938

"Speaking For Ourselves" by Amy Goodman and Kathy Dobie, WNYC, March 28, 1987

A discussion of the Triangle fire includes remarks by 94 year old Triangle fire survivor Pauline Pepe made during the 1985 commemoration of that tragedy. Also speaking were New York City Fire Commissioner Joseph Spinnato who remarked on the fire in the Schomburg Plaza, a Harlem high rise, that killed 7 people the previous Sunday, Triangle Fire author Leon Stein, and New York State Assembly member Frank Barbaro, among others.